Improvement in grain and grass harvesters



whiche portions of theframe may be made of iron;

. UNITED STATES PATENT OFTFICE9 JAMES T. YOUART, OF TROY, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT' IN GRAIN AND GRASS HARVESTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.- 14,980, dated May 27,1856.

To all 'whom it may concern.-

Be itknownthat' I, JAMES T. YOUARLIOf Troy, in the'county ot' Miami and `State of .Ohio have'invented a new and useful Im of the same.-

Similar letters'of"referenceindicate corre-A sponding parts-in both ignres..

. My inventio'uconsists "inl the peculiar cona struction and arran gementfof the 'cutting device, as .will hehereinafter fully shown and described. Y

To enableothers skilledinthe art to make and use L ny inyention,`I will-proceed to deseriheit.- v I A represents` the cutter-bar, vwhich is attached to the main frame of the machine, as

usual. Thehar and frame Aare of `usual con- 1 struction, and therefore do not require a mi-s nnte description.y

B represents a rectangular franieywhicl` is placed en the upper surface of the bar A, the

frame exjtending nearly the wholev length of the bar. The outer or front' strip, C, ofthe frame B has a cuttin'gedge and fornisthe sickle.V l'lhisstrip'is made of steel. ".lheot'her'- They are 'formedof circular plates a, pivoted atV their'centerslo the bar Aatgequalfdis-1y tances apart, and having Vfshaped projections .a attached to, them'` at their frontil ends and "sqnareprojeetions b attached totheir hack-' -ends; The 'coilectors may beniade of sheeti `or cast inetah'and the-proj'ecti'ons'a l 19- have'.A

not cutting-edges, but are forrmfedV square or:V

blunt 'at right-angleswith"their upper and 'lower surfaces, the 'officeo't the'collectors bei ing to draw and press the grass or grain to'- ward the strip or sickle C, as will be hereinafter referred to, The' projections b are pivl .oted fto the back strip offthe frame :The projections a' .eXtend beyond thevl sickle or tripO.'

Y E repesentsa pitman, one end of whicnis pivoted to the back strip-of the frame B. The oppositeend ofthe ptman is attached by a sickle. sharp, but have square edges, thel cutting of thefgrassor grainv v.being done entirely by the e tertely upcnth/e grass er grain.. t.

AThecutting device is simple, easily kept in Thev cutting device pivot to a crank-pulley, F, the axis of which passes 'through-a plat-e, c, attached vto the back end o f the bar A. The axis of the crankpulley ha'sji bevel-Wheel, d,-upon`it, which wheel gears intocorrespondingwheel, cron a shaft, G, which is` parallel with the bar A,

and has its bearings in projectionsf f, attached to the back of the bar A. The end of -the shaft G, nearthe crank-pulley, -is connected bymeansof' proper gearing with the driving-wheel ot' the machine, andthe op'po. site end has'a pinion, g,upon it, which pin-- io'n gears 'into apinion, h, attached to the side cfa wheel, z, which has its axis j fitted in a lever, H, one end. of which ispivoted tothe outer end of the bar`A, and the opposite end kissnecured byfa pin, K, toan upright, l, at vtachedto oneofthe projections j'.'

The operation is as follows: As the machine isdrawnalong the shaft Gris rotated by means of propergeari'ng from `the drivingwheel ot' the inachine, and the crankpulley E rotated by the bevel-gears de, and a reciprocating motion istherefore communicated to the sickle C 'and a vibratinggmotiou to the projections as they vibrate collect the grass or grain'and press it aganstthe cutting-edge of the sickle C, and cause it to be cnt by the' The sides of` the projections are not sickle.' The vsides o f cach projection eact'alorderfaud isf notliablej 'to become choked or clogged.; 1. f .i' l Hamillgithus"described my invention, 1 do not cl'aiin [separately the 'reciprocating frame VB,.vrithsickle`G attached; nor do YI claim-,any forni'lof 'vibratingcutters separately; but f Wliat .lr-claim' as ne w, and desi-re to secureby Letters VPatent, is

I formed uof ,therec'ipro cati ng frame \B, withthe 'straight-edged sickle C attached, eombinatiou with .the squareedged collectors D,- connected with 'the trame aboveparts being constructed, arranged, and

' operating as shoWn,-for the purpose specitied.

e vJAMES 'I..l YOUART. Witnesses:

ASA YoUAR'r, Jive. MCG'oLLotJerL 

